I’ve always had eclectic tastes in music, which has led to derision from my family and friends over my custom-made CD’s that I play in my car. On a single CD, I can have pop, rock, R&B, rap, jazz and country: whatever tickled my fancy at the time.

While reading the Wikipedia entry for the Beastie Boys the other day, I stumbled across a reference to Mike D’s country album named Country Mike’s Greatest Hits. I was intrigued because the Beasties have been one of my favorite groups over the years (yes I still have the original Licensed To Ill CD that I bought in 1986), so I did some Googling and found that someone had actually made the album available for download.

Obviously, I downloaded it and I have to say I like it. I was expecting a really campy set of songs, and while there is a lot of tongue-in-cheek lyrics, Mike D did a good job producing the songs. I’ve found that good artists simply put out good music, even if they are just screwing around.

In particular, I like the song, “Country Delight”. Have already listened to it about 30 times.